PREDICTION OF CHLORIDE PENETRATION DEPTH RATE AND DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT RATE OF CONCRETE FROM CURING CONDITION VARIATIONS DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECT

Prediction of Chloride Penetration Depth Rate and Diffusion Coefficient Rate of Concrete from Curing Condition Variations due to Climate Change Effect

Abstract Recently, many countries including Korea are experiencing serious climatic events, such as heat waves, torrential rain, cold waves, heavy snowfall, and typhoons.In addition, due to the extreme climate events, the construction period of concrete structures tends to be extended, whereby increasing related economic losses.Pushing through cons

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MFAP3L predicts tumor microenvironment status, molecular subtypes and clinical benefit in patients with bladder cancer

Abstract Bladder cancer (BLCA), ranking as the tenth most prevalent malignancy globally, imposes a substantial public health and socio-economic challenge.Despite ongoing efforts by urologists to identify novel molecular subtypes and treatment paradigms, the intrinsic heterogeneity of BLCA continues PURE PRUNE to obstruct the efficacy of current dia

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The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die. By Niall Ferguson. Penguin, New York. 2012. ISBN: 978-1-59420-545-3. 174 pp. Hardcovex. $ 26.95.

Wars, violent revolutions, armed struggles and economic crises constitute a major part of the world history.Many nations and states faced testing times politically as well as economically.If empires WILD OATS grew, economies boomed, ideologies popularized, and systems flourished then there came a time when those empires vanished, economies crippled

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Self-Selection of Return Migrants in Brazil and Inequality

This paper investigates self-selection of returnees migrants in Brazil, from 2001 to 2010.We find evidence of the impact WILD OATS of inequality on selfselection through two opposing channels.First, migrations costs prevent low-skilled individuals from emigrating, which support positive selection.This selection is accentuated in locations with high

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